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I don't even know how to respond to your comment. It's so royally detached from the reality of the world that I don't even know where to begin.

So there's only one group that has the power of the sword, and that is the government. There's only one group that holds a monopoly on violence, and that's government. There's only one group that can steal your home, along with anything else they want, using the state powers like eminent domain, and that's the government.

You say governments are accountable. Tell that to every Jeffrey Epstein victim and ask them how much accountability there is right now in government as it relates to the integrity of their investigation.

I say this with all due respect, but your comment is so far from fact that I think you may be trolling.

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I'm not trolling, private businesses are mostly centrally planned economies and we know how terrible those are for humans. Acting like workplace democracy is a bad thing is beyond pathetic. Liberating the workplace from tyrants is the final frontier of democracy, any entity that can controls one's life without consent from all the workers doesn't deserve to exist.

I can honestly think of maybe two business leaders that would survive a vote by their workers to stay in power of the company.

Private enterprise enable some of the worst forms of human collaboration (monarchies, oligarchies, centrally planned top down enforced initiatives). Democracies are more efficient and far, so why not legislate their existence in workplaces?

If it helps, you sound like the troll to me.

I have to jump in the car soon, so to end on a good note: I now know you are not a troll, but I did start thinking that for a bit.

As an employee, we take part in charting the course for the business, but businesses have owners, and they have the ultimate say. A nation does not have owners. A nation has citizens, which is why democracy makes sense in a nation, but not a business; although loosely speaking, putting things to a vote when it's appropriate is not a bad thing. But no employee is entitled to that unless it is directly related to the scope of his or her employment.

Ultimately, you are conflating two different worlds: private enterprise and politics. They are two separate things; two separate animals; with two separate natures.

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